ScottinSoCal 🇺🇦 🕊 🏳‍🌈 @ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es

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"According to the lawsuit, multiple Black students were told that Black Lives Matter messaging constitutes a disruption, while the Confederate flag “represents ‘heritage not hate’ and is a point of pride rather than disruption.” #racism

"Today we will a start a marathon for fair play aimed at clearing the management of international Olympic structures of hypocrisy as well as (preventing) any attempts to drag representatives of the terrorist state into world sport," says #Ukraine President Zelenskyy, announcing a campaign to prevent #Russia from competing in the #ParisOlympics2024.
"It is obvious that any neutral flag of Russian athletes would be stained with blood."

Newscaster: Watch a person of African descent get murdered from the comfort of your breakfast table!
*slow head shake
Don't worry, folks. We've FINALLY realized police officers should be held accountable for murdering Black people, so it's okay to watch this one."

Meanwhile, in my house:

Bob Marley🕯
Redemption Song
https://youtu.be/9ZpxaeICYyg

#KillingSeason
#BlackFriday
#BlackMastodon
#BlackFediverse
#BlackTwitter

finally agreeing on who'd get possession of the car, our divorce came to be known in legal circles as 'The Honda Accord'

My latest soft pastel artwork is titled 'Bluebird for Happiness and Lucky Clover' becuase it combines a beautiful Eastern bluebird with a four-leaf clover. One symbolizes happiness while the other is a symbol of luck.
See this artwork now in my online gallery at https://mm-anderson.pixels.com/featured/bluebird-for-happiness-and-lucky-clover-mm-anderson.html and soon on the other sites listed in my profile.
#birds #BirdArt #art #ArtistsOnMastodon #MastoArt #PastelArtwork #FediGiftShop #bluebird #TraditionalArt

@RIDDLES #monkey

Extremists need to stop playing political games with the lives of working people and families.

Democrats stand with the people. Dismantling Medicare and Social Security will never be up for debate.

It’s a shit show.
Everything and anything involving Trump is a shit show.

HourlyWolves presents: https://nitter.net/hourlywolvesbot/status/1619062754563788821/photo/1

🐦🔗: https://nitter.net/hourlywolvesbot/status/1619062754563788821

Ellie found a smol stick on our morning walk. Life is good. ☀️
#dogsofmastodon

Florida’s new student textbook guidelines that prohibit books “that may lead to student indoctrination” actually sound a lot like indoctrination.

#Florida #DeSantis #GOP

https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/education/2023/01/27/social-studies-textbooks-how-florida-defines-student-indoctrination/69820000007/

During the #Holocaust, a team of Jewish researchers in the Warsaw Ghetto documented the grim effects of starvation on the human body even as they themselves starved.

"They hoped their research would benefit future generations through better ways to treat malnutrition, and they wanted the world to know of Nazi atrocities to prevent something similar from ever happening again."

Hear more from the researcher who found the book in the library, in our #podcast: https://podfollow.com/the-conversation-weekly/episode/107c5a4291d53c4969264fb901f0215ff947c7b8/view #history

Please
stop what you are doing
and in a calm clear voice say:
“computer, end program,”
for there is a chance
that you are actually
a crew member on a starship
in the 24th century
stuck in a holodeck simulation
of this historic pandemic
the chance is small
but it’s worth a try

Holocaust Memorial Day

‘To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time’

ELIE WIESEL

Citizens! *Puts on steel toed boots* I urge you to remain calm at this moment! *loads rubber bullets into launcher* violence is not the answer! *Hangs night stick from belt* We grieve with your community! *Pulls reflective visor down on helmet* Peace is what this moment calls for *climbs into tank* The great MLK Jr said and I quote: I love police, and they are our friends! *diesel engine roars* So obey, comply, and remember we are in this together! *Tear gas launcher slowly points towards crowd*

The waiting game and when you release the shutter: eventually, the lake and I were in sync and this is the result.

Then I walked to work. I had been standing on the breakwall for the better part of an hour.

#nikon #nikond300 #nikoncamera #digitalphotography #colorphotography #colourphotography #digitaldarkroom #marine #harbour #lakeontario #harbourentrance #westerngap #PowerInNature #patience #timing

There is no freedom without reproductive freedom.

#politics #reproductiverights

On this International Holocaust Remembrance Day, one thing we can all do in memory of the millions of victims is ensure our governments treat refugees compassionately. It was that failure by the world in the 1930s that led to many of the deaths. #HolocaustRememberanceDay